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  • From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

    From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way - Paperback

    From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way - Paperback

    By Jesse Thistle

About Jesse Thistle Books

Jesse Thistle is Métis-Cree, from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and an assistant professor in Humanities at York University in Toronto. From the Ashes was the top-selling Canadian book in 2020, the winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction, Indigenous Voices Award, and High Plains Book Award, and also a finalist for CBC Canada Reads. Jesse won a Governor General's Academic Medal in 2016, and is a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholar and a Vanier Scholar. A frequent keynote speaker, he lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with his wife, Lucie, and is at work on multiple projects, including his next book. Visit him at JesseThistle.com.